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Funkiella intagana (Dodson & Dressler) Salazar 2025 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

Drawing by © Dodson & Dressler and The Epidendra Website

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Common Name The Intag Funkiella [A location in Ecuador]

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 2900 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying persistent, ovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence enveloped by infundibuliform sheaths.

"The line drawing published in the protologue of Ecuadoria intagana (Dodson 1994: 133) is inaccurate in depicting the roots as thin and cylindrical, whereas the holotype bears tuberous, fusiform roots characteristic of Funkiella. It is worth noting that the holotype, as all of Dodson’s specimens of Orchidaceae originally housed at the Rio Palenque Science Center in central-western Ecuador (RPSC), were transferred to MO (Thiers continuously updated)" Salazar 2025

Synonyms *Ecuadoria intagana Dodson & Dressler 1994; Microthelys intagana (Dodson & Dressler) Szlach. 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Orquideología Vol 19 #2: 133 Dodson & Dressler 1994 as Ecuadoria intagana drawing fide;

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 41: 853 Szlach 1996 as Microthelys intagana Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as Ecuadoria intagana drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 109 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 110 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide

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